Rob Parker on RGIII’s blackness | DC Sports Bog

Rob Parker on RGIII’s blackness | DC Sports Bog: "“Well, because I want to find out about him,” Parker said. “I don’t know, because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he’s a Republican, which, there’s no information [about that] at all. I’m just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like I’ve got black skin but don’t call me black. So people got to wondering about Tiger Woods early on.”"

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Opinion: When thuggery is OK - Rich Lowry - POLITICO.com

Opinion: When thuggery is OK - Rich Lowry - POLITICO.com: "Civility is one of the most absurdly abused of our political values. It is always centrally important to our functioning as a democracy — right up until the time someone proposes crossing the unions. Then, it goes from “can’t we all get along?” to “nothing to see here.” Then, out come the Hitler signs, the accusations of dictatorship, the huge inflatable rats, the sit-ins, the threats and even the fists, and all anyone can think to say is, “Isn’t it a shame someone had to go and get the unions angry?”"

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Do We Really Have to Condemn the Union Protestor Who Punched Fox News Comedian Steven Crowder?

Do We Really Have to Condemn the Union Protestor Who Punched Fox News Comedian Steven Crowder?: "I have a third solution: Steven, stop whining, take your licks, and accept that getting hit in the face is a hazard of inserting yourself in the middle of an argument between billionaire-funded know-nothing ideologues and people whose livelihoods and stability are being threatened by the insatiable greed of the super-rich and the blind extremism of their wooden-headed political allies. In exchange, liberals will buy you a band-aid for the cut on your forehead and re-iterate that Punching Is Bad. Sound good? Send your answer on Twitter."

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The Rotten Spouse Theorem, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

The Rotten Spouse Theorem, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty: "Even after a bitter divorce, people often pay their ex a compliment: "He was a bad husband, but he's always been a good father" or "She was a bad wife, but she's always been a good mother."  Gracious, yes.  But accurate?  Hard to see how.

A family isn't a set of independent relationships.  They're all connected.  Damaging one foreseeably damages the other.  This is particularly obvious when parents fight in front of their children.  When your children hear you yell at your wife, you don't just hurt her feelings.  You hurt their feelings.
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Althouse

Althouse: "Only 7. And it's not really about being atheist. It's about talking about it. This is the old freedom of speech issue, and we still have a problem with that in the United States. Last I noticed, that man who made the "Innocence of Muslims" video was in prison, right here in the U.S."

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Dem Senators Ask Delay in Medical Device Tax - By Wesley J. Smith - The Corner - National Review Online

Dem Senators Ask Delay in Medical Device Tax - By Wesley J. Smith - The Corner - National Review Online: "The irony could choke a horse. The invaluable Byron York Tweets that 18 Democrat U.S. Senators have asked to delay the Obamacare medical device tax because raising taxes on manufacturers will cost jobs. Knock! Knock! Knock! Hello? Is anybody home? "

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110 Predictions For the Next 110 Years - Popular Mechanics

110 Predictions For the Next 110 Years - Popular Mechanics: "· Vaccines will wipe out drug addiction. The human immune system is supremely adept at detecting and neutralizing foreign substances. Why not train it to target illicit ones? That's the idea behind addiction vaccines: Persuade the body to produce antibodies that shut down drug molecules before they get to the brain. The concept works in mice. Human trials are under way. "

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If this happens will using drugs no longer be considered immoral?

I remember reading an article about how someone had developer a kind of pot that has therapeutic effects, but doesn't get the user high.

Is getting high what's wrong with pot? Not the adverse health effects?

Greg Mankiw's Blog: The Poverty Trap in France

Greg Mankiw's Blog: The Poverty Trap in France: "For this mother of two, working again will bring her family an additional income of only $170. Moreover, this $170 is likely to be lost in the cost of transportation to work, since the cost of gas in France is $7 per gallon. In any case, such a small amount of money is not an incentive to go back to work. Between staying home and working, the choice is simple: welfare is a better deal."

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What Guns Do, and What they Don't - The Daily Beast

What Guns Do, and What they Don't - The Daily Beast: "Could that particular conflict have gone worse with a gun?  It's hard to see how.  It might have gone better; if one person had waved a gun, the fighting might have stopped.  "

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Jurassic rockers the Rolling Stones deliver satisfaction with Barclays Center concert - NYPOST.com

Jurassic rockers the Rolling Stones deliver satisfaction with Barclays Center concert - NYPOST.com: "The group may have looked older than a meeting of the Supreme Court — but they were able to summon the ghosts of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll past.

There were a few, creaky, Metamucil moments at the start, such as when Jagger tried his hand at comedy."

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EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty: "I saw a woman on Stossel tonight who works for McDonald's. She said she was paid $8 an hour, but felt she deserved $15. I thought: Wait a minute, McDonald's isn't the only company not paying you $15 an hour: neither you nor I are aware of anyone willing to pay you that much. So why is your problem with McDonald's?"

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The Corner - National Review Online

The Corner - National Review Online: "I’ve long wondered whether it is possible to create an anti-spending pledge as effective as the famous anti-tax pledge. Jonathan Bydlak writes about an effort to do that on the home page today. I’m with him in spirit, but I don’t think the pledge would work very well. It generally requires an affirmative vote of Congress for taxes to rise, making accountability easy. (The fact that this condition doesn’t apply right now, of course, is causing anti-taxers all sorts of problems.) Yet spending rises automatically all the time with no affirmative vote, because of entitlements–and the anti-spending pledge does not account for this fact.

Also, refusing to raise taxes generally does not keep the government from sending out Social Security checks, maintaining the military, and doing other things the vast majority of people want it to do. Holding the line on appropriations bills, as the pledge demands, can lead to partial government shutdowns; so can refusing to raise the debt limit, as the pledge also demands.

So while I wish it could be done, I don’t think it’s possible to pledge our way to lower spending."

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Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Do Not Exist - Alice Dreger - The Atlantic

Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Do Not Exist - Alice Dreger - The Atlantic: "Given all this, the Hewletts conclude, "Homosexuality and masturbation are rare or nonexistent [in these two cultures], not because they are frowned upon or punished, but because they are not part of the cultural models of sexuality in either ethnic group."

The finding with regard to homosexuality is perhaps not that surprising. As the Hewletts note, other researchers have documented cultures where homosexuality appears not to exist. If homosexual orientation has a genetic component to it -- and there is increasing evidence that it does, in many cases -- then it would not be surprising that this complex human trait (one that involves non-procreative efforts) would be found in some populations but not others."

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I basically agree with Ross Douthat here

I basically agree with Ross Douthat here: "The retreat from child rearing is, at some level, a symptom of late-modern exhaustion — a decadence that first arose in the West but now haunts rich societies around the globe. It’s a spirit that privileges the present over the future, chooses stagnation over innovation, prefers what already exists over what might be. It embraces the comforts and pleasures of modernity, while shrugging off the basic sacrifices that built our civilization in the first place."

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The Volokh Conspiracy

The Volokh Conspiracy: "I should say at the outset that I approach this delicate subject sheepishly, but this development bears noting. In a rare example of a Western country taking steps to restrict previously recognized sexual liberties, Germany is seeking to ban bestiality. (Its supporters call it zoophilia – are opponents zoophobes?) This will presumably put out to pasture Germany’s erotic zoos, where visitors go beyond heavy petting."

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